Classical Collection - Thursday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. Featuring three choral memorials from the Renaissance, Jorge Bolet performing Liszt and Daniel Barenboim's live performance of Beethoven's First Piano Concerto, part of the free concert he gave for the people of East Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. 10.00am Liszt: Funerailles Jorge Bolet (piano) RCA 82876633102 10.12am Tansman: Symphony No 6 (In Memoriam) Melbourne Chorale Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Oleg Caetani (conductor) CHANDOS CHSA 5041 10.33am Britten: Masque of Pyramus and Thisbe (A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act 3) Theseus ...... Brian Bannatyne Scott (bass) Hippolyta ...... Hilary Summers (contralto) Lysander ...... John Mark Ainsley (tenor) Demetrius ...... Paul Whelan (baritone) Hermia ...... Ruby Philogene (mezzo-soprano) Helena ...... Janice Watson (soprano) Bottom ...... Robert Lloyd (bass) Quince ...... Gwynne Howell (bass) Flute ...... Ian Bostridge (tenor) Snug ...... Stephen Richardson (bass) Snout ...... Mark Tucker (tenor) Starveling ...... Neal Davies (baritone) London Symphony Orchestra Colin Davis (conductor) PHILIPS 4541222 10.50am Part: Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra Neeme Jarvi (conductor) BIS CD 420 10.57am Ockeghem: Mort tu as navre Josquin Desprez: Nymphes des bois Obrecht: Mille quingentis The Clerks' Group Edward Wickham (conductor) GAUDEAMUS CDGAU 362 11.20am Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 1 in C, Op 15 Berlin Philharmonic Daniel Barenboim (piano/director) SONY SK 45830.